The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

Jurong Bird Park - Southeast Asian Birds Aviary

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Jurong Bird Park
Jurong Hill
West, Singapore
23 November 2013

Home to the region’s most exotic and endangered birds, the Southeast Asian Birds Aviary is located a short walk away from Pools Amphitheatre. The colourful free-flying birds are kept in a tropical rainforest landscape.

Mars & Venus

 Couples having a little bonding time...
 
  
The males love to strut around to display their splendour...

 

 A father stands guard at the nest while the mother is inside spending quality time with the babies...

Free Play

Other than the few endangered species, the other birds are free to fly and walk around in the open aviary...


The normally chatty Hill Mynah is rather shy today...
 
A peacock-wannabe...

Opportunities In Downpours

The rain's a perfect time to see birds all fluffed and streaked...

Don't let the air out!

Where's my comb?

 
This one was just blown-dry with a hair dryer...

In All Colours Of The Rainbow


It's time for a little food - Birds need their breakfast too...

Lovers' Ducks

Just outisde the Southeast Asian Birds Aviary lies a Bridge of Harmony...

Beneath it, lovers stay by each other...
 
 
 


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